A runaway bride jumps out of a window—and into the clutches of a rake—in this witty Regency tale by "a brilliant star of the romance genre" ( RT Book Reviews). Ellen Marling lives in terror of her wedding night to the beastly Baron Basil Brockhaven. After she is forced into the marriage by her father, a leap in the dark from the bedroom window seems more appealing than spending even one night with the loathsome lord . . . Until she discovers her leap has delivered her straight into the hands of the notorious Marquess of Trent, as handsome as he is hedonistic. Ellen has traded a monstrous husband for a masterly rake, and now faces the prospect of the greatest danger of all: falling in love. "A superb storyteller." —Heather Graham, New York Times–bestselling author of Come the Morning
